Micro:Macro explores the role of models in understanding and exploring our world, and features models from science, mathematics, medicine, engineering, art, and architecture.
Micro:Macro
Models shift perceptions and change understanding. Through altering scale, the miniature becomes visible, the massive, understandable. Single cells are expanded thousands of times, insects hundreds, and a whole suburb shrinks to a tabletop. Micro:Macro, in the Ian Potter Gallery of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, explores the role of models in understanding and exploring our world, and features models from science, mathematics, medicine, engineering, art, and architecture..
Chau Chau Wing Museum
Art, science, history and ancient cultures
The Chau Chak Wing Museum brings three powerful collections to a stunning, purpose-built space at the University of Sydney.
Located in the heart of the University of Sydney, the Chau Chak Wing Museum was designed to share the University of Sydney’s vast collections with the broader community.
Consuelo Cavaniglia has been commissioned to develop a major contemporary art project to engage with the Museum’s extensive collections and architecture.
Consuelo Cavaniglia
Consuelo Cavaniglia’s project represents the first time an artist has been invited to respond directly to the architecture of the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Cavaniglia intensifies the viewer’s experience of the interior spaces as they navigate the building, by colouring the ‘lantern’ skylight, and by intervening onto glass surfaces to create perceptual shifts. In the Penelope Gallery, she has selected objects from the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s collection, including optical instruments and glass from the ancient world, which are presented alongside her own recent works. The artist has also selected to display artworks from the collection by Lily Greenham (1924–2001), and Martha Boto (1925–2004). Cavaniglia celebrates these women artists and connects her own practice to theirs in a lineage of engagement with abstraction, colour, light, and perception. Cavaniglia’s interest in perception extends to the ways that voices are represented within the museum. The artist has invited women and gender-diverse staff members to reflect on their experience of the museum and its collections. Their responses create alternative narratives to the more formal voice of museum wall labels, reframing the experience of the museum and its collections through personal perspectives.
Chau Chau Wing Museum
Art, science, history and ancient cultures
The Chau Chak Wing Museum brings three powerful collections to a stunning, purpose-built space at the University of Sydney.
Located in the heart of the University of Sydney, the Chau Chak Wing Museum was designed to share the University of Sydney’s vast collections with the broader community.
Union Made: Art from the University of Sydney Union features major artworks from the largest collection amassed by an Australian student union, now held by Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Union Made
Celebrating 150 years of connecting students – this dazzling exhibition showcases rare European works, contemporary Indigenous art and Australian modernism. Union Made: Art from the University of Sydney Union features major artworks from the largest collection amassed by an Australian student union, now held by Chau Chak Wing Museum. Since the first acquisition in 1913, the collection has been displayed on the walls of the USU buildings, Holme, Manning and Wentworth, recognising how art can shape student thinking and enrich the student experience. This exhibition celebrates the USU’s 150th anniversary by presenting a dazzling selection across rare European works, contemporary Indigenous art and Australian modernism.
Chau Chau Wing Museum
Art, science, history and ancient cultures
The Chau Chak Wing Museum brings three powerful collections to a stunning, purpose-built space at the University of Sydney.
Located in the heart of the University of Sydney, the Chau Chak Wing Museum was designed to share the University of Sydney’s vast collections with the broader community.
Kerameikos offers new ways of understanding some of Australia’s oldest collections, by challenging historical narratives and pushing the boundaries of ceramic practice today.
Kerameikos – The Potters’ Quarter
In ancient Athens, the Kerameikos was the potter’s quarter, a hub of innovation where artisans produced some of the most sought-after ceramics of the Mediterranean region. ‘Kerameikos’ brings together seven leading Australian ceramic artists to create a contemporary potters’ quarter at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Each artist has been invited to explore the Museum’s historic and diverse collections during a week-long intensive residency, collaborating closely with the curatorial team. The resulting commissioned works will provide a fresh perspective on some of Australia’s oldest collections.
Chau Chau Wing Museum
Art, science, history and ancient cultures
The Chau Chak Wing Museum brings three powerful collections to a stunning, purpose-built space at the University of Sydney.
Located in the heart of the University of Sydney, the Chau Chak Wing Museum was designed to share the University of Sydney’s vast collections with the broader community.
Five Australian artists from different Chinese diasporic communities embrace their material histories to celebrate the process of becoming.
The Trace Is Not a Presence
Through the hands of five Australian artists from different Chinese diasporic communities, The trace is not a presence highlights both the active process of making, and the experience of transcending the past towards a present that is not immediately identifiable and complete.
A trace is a materialised passage of time, history, and memory. The exhibition includes historical documents and cultural objects to suggest traces of the past, as well as contemporary artworks by:
Louise Zhang
Dongwang Fan
Jenna Lee
Cyrus Tang
John Young
Chau Chau Wing Museum
Art, science, history and ancient cultures
The Chau Chak Wing Museum brings three powerful collections to a stunning, purpose-built space at the University of Sydney.
Located in the heart of the University of Sydney, the Chau Chak Wing Museum was designed to share the University of Sydney’s vast collections with the broader community.
COMA is pleased to present To Dust You Shall Return, a group presentation featuring, Shinya Azuma, Buck Ellison, Etsu Egami, Eiko Gröschl, Kieren Karritpul, Zoe McGuire, and Kemar Keanu Wynter.
To Dust You Shall Return
To Dust You Shall Return is a look at the folly of man and our underestimation of nature with inspiration taken from the dust storms that damaged the American and Canadian prairies in the 1930s, and biblical references to retribution and ritual.
COMA
Formed at the close of 2016 by Sotiris Sotiriou as a contemporary art space, COMA began as a project based endeavour with the goal of exposing international artists at all career levels to the Australian and Asia-Pacific regions. In doing this over the course of the next four years COMA exhibited a diverse range of artists, many of which had shown, or went on to show, in major museums, biennales and commercial galleries across the globe.
By unearthing the memories of local residents and what the cinema meant to them, Afternote reminisces on the days when movie theatres were considered the cultural centre, a part of daily life and the cityscape.
Afternote
Afternote: In the Shade of Cinema is an exhibition focusing on the history of movie theatres in the provincial city of Yamaguchi, Japan. Curated by Yu Iseki (Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito), the display includes records and materials related to the city’s cinemas, along with the latest work by Nobuhiro Shimura, a contemporary Japanese artist who produces video installations exploring themes of memory and placeness.
The Japan Foundation
The Japan Foundation, Sydney is the Australian arm of The Japan Foundation, a non-profit cultural organisation which was established by the Japanese government to promote cultural and intellectual exchange between Japan and other nations. We run a diverse range of programs and events, including exhibitions, talk events, grant programs and Japanese language courses for all levels from beginner to advanced.
It’s all fun and games… Until someone loses an eye.
XSWL
In China’s digital landscape, memes, puns, and jokes are used to bypass censorship and address sensitive topics. The slang XSWL (笑死我了), meaning “laughing to death,” is a condensed way of expressing laughter, similar to “LOL.” However, it carries a deeper meaning—suggesting that behind the humor, darker games may be at play.
White Rabbit Gallery
The White Rabbit Gallery was opened in 2009 to showcase what has become one of the world’s most significant collections of Chinese contemporary art.
By Matthew López. Inspired by the novel Howards End by E.M. Forster
Matthew López’s epic play, The Inheritance, reimagines E.M. Forster’s Howards End as a contemporary portrait of New York’s gay community. A story of survival, legacy and love, The Inheritance investigates a circle of friends attempting to forge a future for themselves amid a turbulent and changing America. Chance meetings lead to surprising choices as the lives of three generations interlink and collide, with explosive results.
Following hit seasons on the West End and Broadway, four Tony and four Olivier Awards including Best Play, this two-part epic makes its Sydney premiere at the Seymour Centre. Seeing both parts on the one day is an incredible theatrical experience – same day tickets will sell fast so book early!
A Powerful Play on Legacy and Identity
Don’t miss The Inheritance—a profound story weaving together love, memory, and the connections that shape us.
Experience this energetic and hilarious show in a vibrant sunflower filled environment!
Every Wednesday & Thursday at The Chippo Hotel
Stand OUT Comedy Club is Sydney’s Favourite Sunflower Comedy Show!! Hosting Australia’s best comedians in the city’s most vibrant atmospheres its a wonderful experience for everyone!! If its with friends, colleagues or a hot date, its a fantastic night for all occasions.
Join us every WEDNESDAY for our ‘PRO VARIETY SHOW’ – an energetic and packed event featuring eight hilarious professional comedians who will have you rolling with laughter! Each comedian will deliver tight, short sets, ensuring a fast-paced and amazing comedy experience. With a carefully curated lineup, there’s something for everyone to love at our variety show. With the amazing Yulli’s Brewery sponsoring the show with Cheap Jugs! Don’t miss out on this fantastic evening of comedy entertainment!
Every THURSDAY we have our NEW HEADLINER POWER HOUR! Where we have 4 Headline professional comedians with years of experience do long intimate sets all packed into one powerful hour of hilarious comedy! this is a new fantastic top tier experience for our comedy lovers.With the amazing Philter Brewery sponsoring the show with Cheap Jugs!
These events are Downstairs at The Chippo Hotel, also home to Mama B’s amazing vegan bistro.
Midweek Comedy Nights Await!
Catch Sydney’s best comedians every Wednesday and Thursday at The Chippo Hotel for nights full of laughs and good vibes.
